Reinhold Eggers, who was promoted from duty officer to chief of security at Colditz Castle in 1944, served on the prison's staff for longer than anyone else, from November 1940 until the end of ...

A couple claim their neighbour's building of a three-metre spiked fence has made their own garden feel like a modern-day version of Colditz Castle. Alison and Ian Lawrence, from New Milton in ...

Captain Julius Morris Green was captured by Nazis in 1940 at Dunkirk He spent most of the war in POW camps including Colditz castle MI9 recruited him as a spy and he sent information back in coded ...

Built secretly in an attic of Colditz castle, the glider was an airworthy craft, as clearly demonstrated by the replica featured in the NOVA program "Nazi Prison Escape." Many believe that ...

When the American army took Colditz Castle in 1945, two of the prisoners, Corran Purdon and Dick Morgan, asked to rejoin the fighting because they said they wanted to finish the war with rifles in ...

Colditz castle was used by the Germans to hold the "bad boys", (those who regularly tried to escape from other camps). At all times, the guards outnumbered the prisoners and, because some ...

This Canadian Creamery Butter tin comes from Colditz Castle in Germany. The tin was part of a Red Cross parcel, sent to Allied Officers imprisoned there during the Second World War. I acquired it ...

The best known and most notorious PoW camp in history is Colditz, an 18th century castle in eastern Germany. With its imposing walls, steep cliffs, and rigorous policing, it was seen as the ...

When the American army took Colditz Castle in 1945, two of the prisoners, Corran Purdon and Dick Morgan, asked to rejoin the fighting because they said they wanted to finish the war with rifles in ...